Gli albori del folklore ucraino. Antecedenti e primi passi di un’etnografia alla ricerca delle comuni e antiche radici del popolo ucraino

• Published in: Etnoantropologia Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 117 - 136
• Main Author: Tamara Mykhaylyak
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: CLUEB 01-09-2018
• Subjects: ethnography, explorations, national identity, ukraine, lviv, kharkiv, kiev
• ISSN: 2284-0176

This article discusses the main stages that have marked the
origin and the development of the various Anthropological disciplines in
Ukraine. From the seventeen-century onwards, several texts containing
the notes of the foreign travellers on the Ukrainian territories and their
inhabitants started to be discovered. Furthermore, over the next two centuries,
the Ukrainian lands became the focus of study not only for Ukrainian
scholars, geographers and linguists, but also for poets and painters, who often
enjoyed adding ethnographic nuances to their stories. A crucial contribution
was also provided by different institutions, namely universities, scientific
societies and amateur associations, for which the interest in the demo-ethno-
anthropological disciplines became stronger and even more evident.